Psychic Killed by Train

Poetry. By turns tender, tart, gently ironic, heartbreakingly beautiful, Ron Overton's poems celebrate what is lost and what is found in the neon rainbowed urban/suburban world of late twentieth century America, life as advertised and life as really lived, life of the soft and soap and the hard sell, life of no deposit / and many happy returns, ' the Shutout of nothingness / the Empty & Abandoned Stadium of our Dreams, ' the rootless suburbs' 7-Elevens and the homeless big city's eye level' accidents, restless America on the move-L.S. Asekof